Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar

Feds to start sending COVID vaccine to pharmacies next week

February 2, 2021 at 12:38 p.m.

The Biden administration will begin shipping COVID-19 vaccines to U.S. pharmacies next week, ramping up vaccinations as new and potentially more serious virus strains are appearing, the White House said...

In this image from video, Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and chief medical adviser to the president, speaks during a White House briefing on the Biden administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2021, in Washington. (White House via AP)

Fauci sees COVID-19 vaccination for kids by late spring or the summer

January 29, 2021 at 3:01 p.m.

The government's top infectious disease expert said Friday he hopes to see children being vaccinated starting in the next few months. It's a needed step to securing widespread immunity to...

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New Biden health care orders begin to unspool Trump policies

January 28, 2021 at 8:31 a.m.

President Joe Biden will act Thursday to get more people health insurance in the middle of the raging coronavirus pandemic, a down payment on his pledge to push the U.S....

FILE – In this Dec. 14, 2020, file photo, Sandra Lindsay, left, a nurse at Long Island Jewish Medical Center, is inoculated with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine by Dr. Michelle Chester, in the Queens borough of New York. New York officials are pushing for more COVID-19 vaccine doses as the effort to speed up inoculations collides with a lack of vaccine. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Tuesday that the city will run out of first doses of COVID-19 vaccine sometime Thursday without fresh supplies. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, Pool, File)

Biden signs burst of COVID-19 orders, vows “Help is on the way”

January 21, 2021 at 4:04 p.m.

With a burst of executive orders, President Joe Biden served notice Thursday that America's war on COVID-19 is under new command, promising an anxious nation progress to reduce infections and...

Biden to sign coronavirus measures, requires mask use to travel

January 21, 2021 at 11:28 a.m.

Deep in the deadliest coronavirus wave and facing worrisome new mutations, President Joe Biden will kick off his national COVID-19 strategy to ramp up vaccinations and testing, reopen schools and...

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Biden unveils $1.9 trillion plan to stem COVID-19 and steady economy

January 14, 2021 at 10:07 p.m.

President-elect Joe Biden is unveiling a $1.9 trillion coronavirus plan Thursday to turn the tide on the pandemic, speeding up the vaccine rollout and providing financial help to individuals, states...

President-elect Joe Biden speaks during an event at The Queen theater in Wilmington, Del., Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021, to announce key nominees for the Justice Department. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

With coronavirus surging, Biden to speed release of COVID vaccines

January 8, 2021 at 2:28 p.m.

With COVID-19 surging and vaccinations off to a slow start, President-elect Joe Biden will rapidly release most available vaccine doses to protect more people, his office said Friday, a reversal...

Pfizer to supply U.S. with additional 100M vaccines doses

December 23, 2020 at 8:04 a.m.

Pfizer and BioNTech will supply the U.S. with an additional 100 million doses of their COVID-19 vaccine under a second agreement.

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Biden鈥檚 health team offers glimpse of his COVID-19 strategy

December 7, 2020 at 9:53 p.m.

President-elect Joe Biden's choices for his health care team point to a stronger federal role in the nation’s COVID-19 strategy, restoration of a guiding stress on science and an emphasis...

Biden picks Calif. AG Xavier Becerra to lead HHS, pandemic response

December 6, 2020 at 5:56 p.m.

President-elect Joe Biden has picked California Attorney General Xavier Becerra to be his health secretary, putting a defender of the Affordable Care Act in a leading role to oversee his...

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